60NYT > Andrei Serbantopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/andrei_serban/index.html?rss=1News about Andrei Serban, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usTue 03 Mar 2015 14:18:24 -0500http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comPolitics Spills Onto Stage in Budapesthttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/arts/05iht-angels05.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/arts/05iht-angels05.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/04/05/arts/05iht-angels05/05iht-angels05-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>With Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," the National Theater and the Hungarian government are at odds.By JONATHAN LEVIFri, 05 Apr 2013 14:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/arts/05iht-angels05.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Bartered Soul’s Progress, Amid the Scenery and Fineryhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/arts/music/05faus.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/arts/music/05faus.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2006/10/05/arts/05faus_CA0.75.75.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>“Faust,” which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening, received a more standard staging, considerably less eccentric than its Met predecessor, Harold Prince’s 1990 production.By ALLAN KOZINNThu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/arts/music/05faus.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssCreating a Stylish 'Faust,' With Tradition in Mindhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/arts/music/20gard.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/arts/music/20gard.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2005/04/20/arts/20gard75.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>The Metropolitan Opera decided to create a new look for Charles Gounod's "Faust," which is to be unveiled Thursday, to better suit today's audiences.By MATTHEW GUREWITSCHWed, 20 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/arts/music/20gard.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssThere Once Was a Lady From Athenshttp://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/theater/theater-review-there-once-was-a-lady-from-athens.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssRobert Brustein is retiring after 23 years as the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater here, and for his last production he conceived a going-away blowout. He invited absent friends, threw gravitas to the wind in favor of giddy,...By BRUCE WEBERMon, 20 May 2002 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/theater/theater-review-there-once-was-a-lady-from-athens.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFootlightshttp://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssEvergreen The year was 1881. Gilbert & Sullivan trained their sights on poseurs whose attitude turned out to be mostly platitude. The original targets of ''Patience'' might have been Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement, but this witty operetta...By LAWRENCE VAN GELDERThu, 09 May 2002 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssEchoes of Contemporary Battle Lines in Old Russiahttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/19/arts/arts-abroad-echoes-of-contemporary-battle-lines-in-old-russia.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssEven when history repeats itself, it rarely does so to music. And yet it was hard to emerge from Andrei Serban's acclaimed new production of Mussorgsky's ''Khovanshchina'' at the Bastille Opera without remarking almost too obviously on the parallels...By Alan RidingWed, 19 Dec 2001 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/19/arts/arts-abroad-echoes-of-contemporary-battle-lines-in-old-russia.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Bad King (Richard III) Comes in 3'shttp://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/theater/theater-review-a-bad-king-richard-iii-comes-in-3-s.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssRichard III, at least as portrayed by Shakespeare, was one nasty guy, except to the director Andrei Serban. In an energetic adaptation now on view at the La MaMa Annex, Mr. Serban has turned the blood-drenched king into three nasty guys. Mr....By NEIL GENZLINGERSat, 03 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/03/theater/theater-review-a-bad-king-richard-iii-comes-in-3-s.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssOdd Things in Heaven and Earth Are Dreamed of in the Latest 'Hamlet'http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/20/theater/theater-review-odd-things-heaven-earth-are-dreamed-latest-hamlet.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssIt's a mad, mad, mad, mad kingdom, this nutty old land of Denmark that has materialized at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Even Hamlet, for all his perversity, should know better than to describe the place as a prison. What it is, obviously, is a...By BEN BRANTLEYMon, 20 Dec 1999 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/20/theater/theater-review-odd-things-heaven-earth-are-dreamed-latest-hamlet.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssTwo Fortinbrases And the Ghosts Of Hamlets Pasthttp://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/19/theater/theater-two-fortinbrases-and-the-ghosts-of-hamlets-past.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssWHAT may be the very last new ''Hamlet'' of Shakespeare's millennium opens at the Joseph Papp Public Theater tonight -- boards that many melancholy Danes have trod before. This time, Liev Schreiber wears the customary suits of solemn black, under...By MATTHEW GUREWITSCHSun, 19 Dec 1999 00:00:00 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/19/theater/theater-two-fortinbrases-and-the-ghosts-of-hamlets-past.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssFootlightshttp://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/18/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssNEWS Public Notice Andrei Serban will direct a new ''Hamlet'' beginning on Nov. 23 as part of the 1999-2000 season of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. The season begins on Oct. 26 with the world premiere of ''In the...By LAWRENCE VAN GELDERWed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/18/theater/footlights.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss